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ARTHUR R. HAVENER, OF WALTI-IAIVI, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR 'IO AMERICAN LAOING- HOOK 00.. A CORYORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

LACING-HOOK-SETTING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916..

Application filed May 29, 1914. Serial No. 841,932.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. HAVENER, a citizen of the United States, residing at VValtham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lacing-Hook- Setting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for setting lacing hooks in the uppers of boots and shoes, the object of the invention being to provide a. machine of the character set forth in which the lacing hook may be set in the upper from the upper side thereof, the machine being particularly adapted to set lacing hooks in the uppers of boots and shoes after the shoes have been otherwise completed, the advantage arising from this construction being that the work is always visible to the operator.

The object of the invention is further to provide a rapid automatically operated machine of comparatively simple construction.

Another object of the invention is to provide a construction whereby all of the lacing hooks on the raceway may be quickly emptied therefrom when desired.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

.Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a right hand side elevation. Fig. 3 is a left hand side elevation. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation taken on line ll of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional plan taken on line 5--5 of F ig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional elevation taken on line 66 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional elevation similar to Fig. 6 but showing the parts in different positions relatively to each other with the clutch in operative position. Fig. 7 is a sectional plan taken on line 77 of Fig. 2. Fig. 8

" is a sectional elevation taken on line 88 of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detail plan, partly in section, illustrating the lower portion of the raceway with the lacing hook feed finger just ready to move the lacing hook along the horizontal portion of the raceway onto the lacing hook carrier. Fig. 10 is a plan view similar to Fig. 9 showing the lacing hook fed forward onto the carrier and in dotted lines. Fig. 11 is a detail sectional elevation. taken on line 1l11 of Fig. 9.

F ig, 12 is a detail sectional elevation illustratmg a portion of the clutch shipping mechanism.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 10 is the frame of the machine, 11 a stationary shaft upon which is ournaled a pulley 13 and a pinion 14:; said pinion meshes into a gear 15 forming one member of a clutch. Said gear 15 is mounted to rotate freely upon a camshaft 16 and is locked to said shaft by the other member 17 of said clutch, which is fastened to the shaft 16 and has a dog 18 pivoted at 19 to the member 17. The dog 18 is held in the position illustrated in Fig. 6 by a springaetuated pin 20, so that as the gear 15 is rotated in the direction of the arrow a, a pin 21, fast to said gear 15, will engage the outer end of the dog 18, locking the two parts 15 and 17 together and rotating the shaft 16 in the direction of the arrow a.

The part 15 is unlocked from the part 17 of the clutch by a slide 22 which is caused to engage the outer end of the dog 18 and move the same out of engagement with the pin 21, thus allowing the part 15 to rotate freely while the part 17 of the clutch and the shaft 16 to which it is fastened remain stationary. The slide 22 is supported on its under side by a buffer 131, said buffer being supported, in turn, by a spring 132 located in a recess 133 in the frame of the machine (see Fig. 12).

The slide 22 is operated from a treadle (not shown in the drawings) by means of a treadle rod 23 (Fig. 3) which is connected to a lever 24 pivoted at 25 to the frame of the machine and having a pin 26 fast thereto which projects into a slot 27 formed in the upper end of a vertical rod 28 which, at its lower end, is connected by a pin 29 to a lever 30. The lever 30 is pivoted at 31 to the frame of the machine and is connected to a pin 32 which is fastened to the slide 22 and projects laterally therefrom through a slot 134. A. spring 33 is connected at one end thereof to the frame of the machine and at the other end thereof to the rod 28. When the machine is brought to a stop, the blow of the dog 18 upon the slide 22 is transmitted to the buffer 131 and spring 132 and said slide is slightly depressed at the end adjacent to the dog 18 and rocks upon the pivotal pin 32. The spring 132 subsequently reacts and brings the slide to bear against the frame along its upper edge as illustrated in Fig. 12.

It will be seen that when the treadle is operated to depress the right hand end of the lever 24 (Fig. 3) the rod 28 will be moved upwardly and the bell-crank lever 30 will be tipped on its pivot 31 to move the slide 22 toward the right (Fig. 3) and thus release the dog 18 of the clutch which will be forced outwardly from the center by the spring pin 20 into the path of the pin 21 upon the rotating member 15. of the clutch. The two parts will then become locked together and the machine will be operated to rotate the cam shaft 16.

The upper 129, into which the lacing hooks are to be driven, is placed upon a work-support 34 fastened to the frame of the machine, with its edge resting against the edge gage 35, also fastened to the frame of the machine (Fig. 4). The lacing hooks which are to be set in said upper are contained in a hopper. of any suitable construction (notshown in the drawings) and are conducted by a raceway 36 downwardly from said hopper to be set in the upper.

The raceway 36 consists of a vertically disposed portion 37 and a horizontally disposed portion 38. The vertically disposed portion 37 consists of two guide-plates. 39 and 40. The plate 39 projects into the neck of the lacing hook 41, while the portion 40 rests against the shank of the lacing hook (see Fig. 9). At their lower ends the parts 39 and 40 of the raceway are bent to form horizontally disposed portions of said raceway, 42 and 43. p

The horizontally disposed portion 38.of the raceway 36 consists, as a whole, of the portions 42 and 43 and a movable portion 44. The vertically disposed portion of the raceway 36 has a race slot 45 and the horizontally disposed portion 38 of said raceway has a race slot 46 and these two race slots are at right angles to each other. The movable portion 44 is pivoted at 47 to the frame of the machine and is held normally projecting into the race slot 46 by a fiat spring 48, the upper end of which is pivoted at 49 to the frame of the machine and the lower end of which bears against the outer edge of the pivoted movable portion 44 of the raceway, (Fig. 2).

A lacing hook carrier 50 is pivoted at 51 to a vertical slide 52 guided in ways 53, 54 in the frame of the machine. The lower part of said carrier is formed of a U-shaped pocket 55 fastened by a screw 56 to the body portion of said carrier and said pocket has a chamber 57 therein adapted to receive a lacing hook, the lower edge of said pocket having a slot 58 therein into which the neck of the lacing hook enters when the same is fed onto the carrier by a feed finger 59 which is fast to a slide 60 and forms a part thereof. Said slide 60 is adapted to slide in ways 61 formed in the frame of the machine and at its rear end is provided with an eye 62 through which a pivotal pin 63 extends connecting said slide with a rocker frame 64. Said rocker frame is connected by a pin 65 with a cam lever 66 which is pivoted at 67 to the frame of the machine and has j ournaled upon its lower end a cam roll 68. The cam roll 68 engages a cam 69 which is fastened to the cam shaft 16. A spring 70 holds the cam roll 68 in engagement with said cam.

The upper end of the rocker 64 has a pin 71 therein which projects through a slot 72 provided in a link 73 and said link is connected at its forward end by a pin 74 to the upper .end of the rocking lacing hook carrier 50. The link 73 is extended rear- Wardly beyond the rocker frame 64 and has fastened to its rearward end one end of a spring 75, the other end of said spring being fastened to the pin 71. The spring 75 is constantly under tension and thus tends at all times to push the link 73 toward the front end of the machine and to hold the lacing hook carrier 50 in the vertical position illustrated in Figs.'2 and 4, in which position said lacing hook carrier stands when the lacing hook is driven.

The feed finger 59 may be moved rearwardly and simultaneously the lacing hook carrier 50 may be tipped upon its pivot to move the lower end thereof forwardly or away from said feed finger by a hand lever 76 which is fastened to a rock-shaft 77 pivoted on the frame of the machine and said rock-shaft has a downwardly projecting arm 78 thereon arranged to engage the lever 66 (see Fig. 4). This lever 76 may be manually operated when desired to move the feed finger 59 rearwardly and simultaneously to rock the lacing hook carrier 50 so as to move the lower end thereof forwardly, as, for example, when it is desired to take out a lacing hook which has become jammed, or, if it is desired to empty the lacing hooks from the raceway the hand lever 76 is moved forwardly, thus separating the feed finger and lacing hook carrier, and the spring 48 is moved upon its pivot 49 forwardly to disengage the rocker plate 44, which, upon being swung out of its normal position or toward the right (Fig. 9) allows all of the lacing hooks on the raceway to slide down said raceway and out of the machine.

The lacing hook carrier 50 has a spring actuated pin 79 in the lower end thereof which is adapted to bear against the top of the head of a lacing hook held by said lacing hook carrier and thus hold said lacing hook in position to be driven (Fig. 4). Y

A vertical reciprocatory motion is imparted to the slide 52 and to the lacing hook carrier 50 thereon by a crank arm 80 formed upon the front end of a rock-shaft 81 (Fig- 1). This crank arm has a crank pin 82 on its free end which enters a sliding block 83 arranged to slide in a curved slot 84 formed in a block 85 fast to the rear side of the slide 52. A rocking motion is imparted to the shaft 81 by an arm 86 fast to the rear end thereof and connected by a pin 87 to the upper end of a cam slide 88. The lower end of said cam slide is guided. by a block 88 upon the cam shaft 16 and a reciprocatory motion is imparted to said cam slide by a cam 89 fast to the shaft 16, (Figs. 3 and 5).

The shank of the lacing hook is clenched in the upper by driving the same against an anvil 90 which has a feed point 91 thereon and is adjustably fastened to a rocker frame 92 by reason of having screw-threaded engagement therewith.

The rocker frame 92 is fastened to a tubular shaft 93 which constitutes a pivot therefor and is slidably mounted on the frame of the machine. A rocking motion is imparted to the rocker frame 92 and to the shaft 93 by a lever 94 pivoted at 94 to the frame of the machine, to which lever a rocking motion is imparted by a cam 95 which engages a cam roll 96 journaled on a pin 97 fast to said cam lever 94. A link 98 is connected to the cam lever 94 by the pin 97 and its other end is connected by a pin 99 to the lower end of the rocker frame 92.

The rocker frame 92, together with the shaft 93 forming its pivot, is moved longitudinally of the median line of said pivotal shaft 93, in order to feed the upper the necessary distance to space the hooks, by a lever 100 which is connected at its forward end by a pin 101 to an arm 102 fast to the rock-shaft 93. The lever 100 is pivoted to a stud 103 which is fastened to a bracket 104 fast to the frame of the machine and said stud projects through a slide block 105 located in a slot 106 in the lever 100, so that said lever may be rocked upon the stud 103 and at the same time slide longitudinally thereof upon the block 105. (See Figs. 2 and 7).

The free end of the lever 100 is pivotally connected to a lever 107 by a pin 108 which projects through a sliding block 109, said sliding block being adapted to be moved in a curved slot 110 in the lever 100. This slot is concentric with a stud 111 upon which the lever 107 is pivoted when the parts are in such a position that the anvil 90 is in alinement with a lacing hook on the lacing hook carrier 50 or in the position when the lacing hook is clenched in the upper of the shoe. The stud 111 is fastened to a slide 112 to which a reciprocatory motion is imparted transversely of the cam shaft 16 by a cam 113, thus imparting a reciprocatory motion to the lever 107 and a rocking motion to the lever 100, whereby a reciprocatory motion is imparted to the rocker frame 92.

i In order to lock the lever 107 in different positions. relatively to the lever 100, so that the pivotal pin 108 may be locked at different positions, nearer to or farther from the stud 103 upon which said lever 100 is pivoted, a sliding pin 114 is provided which is adapted to slide vertically in the pin 108 and has at its upper end a tooth 115 which is arranged to engage any one of the teeth 116 provided on a plate 117 fast to the lever 100. These teeth 116 are concentric with the stud 111 when the anvil 90 is in alinement with a lacing hook on the lacing 1100']; carrier or in the position assumed by the several parts when the lacing hook is about to be driven into the upper. Said pin 114 is held upwardly in ngagement with the teeth 116 by a spring 118 and is moved downwardly out of engagement with said teeth by a lever 119 pivoted at 129 to the lever 107 (Fig. 8).

The lever 107 has a pointer 121 fast thereto and projecting over the upper surface of the plate 117 adjacent to a series of index lines 122, these lines indicating the different throws or different spaces between the lacing hooks. By moving the lever 107 toward the pivot 103, it is evident that the throw of the anvil 90, by which the upper is fed, will be increased and vice versa.

A presser foot 123 is fastened to a vertical reciprocatory rod 124 which is passed downwardly by a spring 125 and raised automatically by a cam 126 against which a roll 127 bears, said roll being journaled on a pin 128 in the lower end of the rod 124. The presser foot is raised manually by means of the treadle rod 23 which, when pushed upwardly, causes the lever 24 to engage the presser foot 123 and raise the same from the work-plate 34.

The general operation of the mechanism hereinbefore specifically described is as follows: Assuming the parts to be in the position illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, the operator raises the presser foot 123 by means of the treadle and treadle rod 23 and lever 24 and then places the upper 129 beneath the presser foot, with its front edge resting against the edge gage 35. He then releases the presser foot and allows it to be moved downwardly into contact with said upper by the spring 125. The machine is now in readiness for operation to set a series of lacing hooks. The operator next operates the treadle to lower the right hand end of the lever 24 and by so doing moves the rod 28 upwardly, tipping the bell crank lever 30 so as to move the slide 22 toward the right (Fig. This releases the dog 18 so as to lock the clutch member 15 to the clutch 'member 17 and to 7 Assuming, now, a lacing hook 41 is resting upon the bottom of the pocket 55, as illustrated in Fig. 4, the machine is so timed that the lacing hook carrier will commence itsdownward movement, being actuated by the slide 52, crank arm 80, shaft 81, rocker arm 86, cam slide 88 and cam 89. At the same time that the lacing hook carrier moves downwardly with its lacinghook to set the same in the upper 129, the anvil 90 and rocker frame 92 are rocked by the link 98, camlever 94 and cam 95 to bring the anvil 90 into a vertical position, with the feed point 91 projecting upwardly through a slot- 130 in the work-support 34. The lacing hook is driven through the upper and against the anvil 90 and is clenched in said upper in a manner well known to those skilled in the art, while the feed point 91 projects upwardly into the shank of said lacing hook. I Having nowset the lacing hook in the upper of the boot or shoe, the feed finger 59 is moved'rearwardly by the rocker frame 64, cam lever 66 and cam 69 until the pin 71' bottoms in the slot 72 of the link 73. Upon further rearward movement the link 73 causes the lacing hook carrier 50 to be rockedupon its pivot 51, thus, withdrawing the lower end of said lacing hook carrier from the lacing hook and throwing it into the position shown in dotted lines (Fig. 4). v The lacing hook now having been released from the lacing hook carrier is free to be moved to feed the upper the necessary distance to space the lacing hook already set correctly with relation to the next lacing hook to be set. The anvil 90 is now ready to be moved, together with the rocker frame 92, toward theleft (Fig. 1) in order to feed the upper. Said anvil is fed toward the left, together with said rocker frame,

by the levers 100 and 107, the slide 112 and the cam 113, the tubular shaft 93 moving longitudinally thereof with said rocker frame 92 and anvil and sliding on the frame. The presser foot, during the feeding of the upper hereinbefore described, is automatically raised to free the upper by means of the cam 126, cam roll 127 and vertical rod 124. As soon as the upper has been fed, the presser'foot' is lowered into contact with the upper and the lacing hook carrier 50 .is moved upwardly by the slide 52, and when it arrives at its highest point the rocker frame 64 is operated to move the feed finger 59 forwardly and the lacing hook carrier 50 is simultaneously moved toward said feed finger and into posltlon to recelve a lacing hook 41 which 1s pushed along the horizontally disposed portion 38 of the raceway 36 pastthemOVabIe part 44 of said raceway and onto the plate at the lower end of the pocket 55. While the lacing hook carrier has been moving upwardly and forwardly into position to receive a new lacing hook the anvil 90 has moved downwardly and toward the right (Fig. 1) into the position illustrated in the drawings in order to repeat the operation hereinbefore described.

It will be understood that in this machine the lacing hook makes its own hole in the upper and that the upper is fed by the anvil,

with its feed point projecting into the shank of the lacing hook after the same has been clenched.

If there is any dilliculty with the feeding of the hooks at the lower end of the raceway, the hand lever 76 is operated to move the feed finger 59 forward and back while the lacing hook carrier is rocked backwardly and forwardly at the same time, respectively.

If it is desired to empty the lacing hooks from the raceway the spring 48 is moved forwardly out of engagement with the movable pivoted plate 44. Said plate is then thrown toward the right (Fig. 1) and the lacing hooks will all empty from the raceway down the space thus provided.

It will be understood that the lacing hooks in the vertically disposed portion 37 of the raceway 36 stand in a substantially horizontal position, as illustrated by the lacing hook 41' (Fig. 9). Then, as said lacing hook passes down onto the horizontally disposed portion of the raceway it assumes a vertical position, as shown by the lacing hook 41 (Fig. 9). It will be seen that when the lacing hook 41 has assumed a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 9, the horizontal portion 43 of the part 40 still bears against the shank of the lacing hook and that the edge of the part 42 projects beneath the adjacent edge of the head of the lacing hook, while the part 44 projects beneath the opposite edge of the head of the lacing hook. Thus the lacing hook is suspended by its head upon the two parts 42 and 44 and is prevented from tipping over backward by the part 43. Then, when the feed finger 59 moves forward to feed the lacing hook 41 onto the lacing hook carrier it strikes the lacing hook 41 in the neck and as it pushes said lacing hook forward said lacing hook will be still suspended upon the parts 42 and 44, while the part 44 presses the neck of the lacing hook up against the part 42 with a yielding pressure, due to the spring 48, and the neck of the lacing hook passes along in the race slot 46 until it passes out of said slot and out from between the plate 44 and the part 42 onto the lacing hook carrier.

After the operation hereinbefore described has been repeated as many times as there are lacing hooks to beset in one upthe clutch, so that the outer part 15 can rotate freely without rotating the cam shaft 16,

When the machine is thus brought to a stop the blow of the dog 18 upon the slide 22 is transmitted to the buffer 131 and spring 132, as hcreinbefore described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

1. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot therefor, an anvil rigidly fastened to said rocker frame, and arranged to rock therewith, mechanism to rock said rocker frame, a lacing hook carrier located above said anvil mechanism constructed and arranged to move said lacing hook carrier toward and away from said anvil, whereby a lacing hook may be inserted in said upper and clenched against said anvil and mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot to feed said upper.

2. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a carrier adapted to hold a lacing hook, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot for said rocker frame, an anvil rigidly fastened to said rocker frame, mechanism to rock said rocker frame, mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot and said anvil out of alinement with a lacing hook located on said lacing hook carrier to feed said upper, and mechanism adapted to move said lacing hook carrier toward and away from said anvil.

3. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a carrier adapted to hold a lacing hook, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot for said rocker frame, an anvil rigidly fastened to said rocker frame, mechanism to rock said rocker frame, mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot and said anvil out of alinement with a lacing hook located on said lacing hook carrier to feed said upper, said last named mechanism embodying means whereby the throw of said anvil out of alinement with said lacing hook may be varied, and mechanism to move said lacing hook carrier toward and away from said anvil.

4. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, an anvil, a feed point on said an vil, a rocker frame to which said anvil is rigidly fastened, a horizontal pivot for said rocker frame, said rocker frame being constructed and arranged to slide longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, a work-support and means adapted to drive the shank of a lacing hook through said upper and clench the same against said anvil, with said feed point projecting into said shank, mechanism to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, with said feed point projecting into said shank to feed said upper, and mechanism to rock said rocker frame whereby said feed point may be withdrawn from said shank.

5. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, an anvil, a feed point on said anvil, a rocker frame to which said anvil is rigidly fastened, a horizontal pivot for said rocker frame, said rocker frame being constructed and arranged to slide longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, a work-support, a carrier located above said work-support and constructed to hold a lacing hook, mechanism to move said carrier toward said anvil and drive the shank of said lacing hook through said upper and clench the same against said anvil, with said feed point projecting into said shank, mechanism to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, with said feed point projecting into said shank to feed said upper, and mechanism to rock said rocker frame whereby said feed point may be withdrawn from said shank.

6. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, an anvil, a feed point on said anvil, a rocker frame to which said anvil is rigidly fastened, a horizontal pivot for said rocker frame, said rocker frame being constructed and arranged to slide longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, a work-support, a carrier located above said work-support adapted to hold a lacing hook, a slide to which said carrier is pivoted, mechanism to move said slide toward said work-support and drive the shank of said lacing hook through said upper and clench the same against said anvil, with said feed point projecting into said shank, mechanism to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, with said point projecting into said shank to feed said upper and mechanism adapted to rock said rocker frame whereby said feed point may be Withdrawn from said shank.

7. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot therefor, an anvil rigidly fastened to said rocker frame, mechanism to rock said rocker frame and mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot.

8. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot therefor, an anvil rigidly fastened to said rocker frame, mechanism to rock said rocker frame and mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot and comprising a cam, a cam slide, a lever pivoted to said cam slide, and a second lever to which said first lever is adjustably connected, said second lever being constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot.

9. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot therefor, an anvil rigidly fastened to said rocker frame, mechanism to rock said rocker frame and mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot and comprising a cam, a cam slide operated thereby and two levers, one pivoted to said cam slide the other constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of .themedian axial line of said pivot, the free ends of said levers being adjustably connected together.

10. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a rocker frame, a horizontal pivot therefor, an anvil fast to said rocker frame, mechanism to rock said rocker frame and mechanism constructed and arranged to move said rocker framelongitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot and com prising a cam, a cam slide operated thereby and two levers, one pivoted to said cam slide the other constructed and arranged to move said rocker frame longitudinally of the median axial line of said pivot, the free end of said rocker frame lever having a slot therein which is concentric with the pivot of said cam lever when said rocker frame is in position to have a lacing hook clenched against said anvil, a pivotal pin extending through said slot and constructed and arranged to pivotally lock the free ends of said levers together and means to set said pivotal pin in different positions in said slot, whereby the throw of said anvil away from a given point may be increased or diminished.

11. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a raceway terminating in a horizontally disposed portion, a lacing hook carrier constructed and arranged to hold a,

lacing hook, a slide to which said lacing .Gopies of this patent may be'obtained for five cents each, by addressing the v Washington, D. 0.

hook carrier is pivoted, a slide constituting a feed finger and mechanism to move said feed finger slide to feed a lacing hook along said raceway and onto said carrier, said last named mechanism constructed and arranged to subsequently rock said carrier to withdraw the same from said lacing hook.

12. A machine for setting a. lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a raceway terminating in a horizontally disposed portion, a lacing hook carrier constructed to hold a lacing hook, a slide to which said carrier is pivoted, a feed finger slide arranged to slide on said machine and to move a lacing hook along said horizontally disposed portion onto said lacing hook carrier and means connecting said feed finger slide to said carrier, whereby, when said feed finger slide is moved in one direction, said carrier will be moved in the opposite direction and whereby said carrier may be withdrawn from said lacing hook after the same has been set in said upper.

13. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a raceway terminating in a horizontally disposed portion, a lacing hook carrier constructed to hold a lacing hook, a slide to which said carrier is pivoted, a feed finger slide arranged to slide on said machine and to move a lacing hook along said horizontally disposed portion onto said lacing hook carrier, a rocker arm pivoted to said feed finger slide, a link connected to said carrier, a pin on said rocker arm projecting into a slot in said link and a spring connecting said link to said pin, whereby said rocker arm may be moved toward said feed finger slide with a yielding pressure and positively away from said feed finger slide.

14. A machine for setting a lacing hook in the upper of a boot or shoe having, in combination, a raceway terminating in a horizontally disposed portion, a lacing hook carrier constructed to hold a lacing hook, a slide to which said carrier is pivoted, a feed finger slide arranged to slide on said machine and to move a lacing hook along said horizontally disposed portion onto said lacing hook carrier and means operated by said feed finger slide, whereby when said feed finger slide is moved in one direction, said carrier will be moved in the opposite direction and whereby said carrier may be withdrawn from said lacing hook after the same has been set in said upper.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR R. HAVENER. Witnesses:

WILLIAM P. BARTEL, A. MCLAUGHLIN.

Commissioner of Patents, 

